Binding: Paperback
Description: From gang - and drug - related shootings to mass shootings in schools shopping centers and movie theatres reports of gun crimes fill the headlines of newspapers and nightly news programs. At the same time a different kind of headline has captured public attention: a steady surge in pro - gun sentiment among Americans. A Gallup poll conducted just a month after the Newtown school shootings found that 74% of Americans oppose a ban on hand - guns and at least 11 million people now have licenses to carry concealed weapons as part of their everyday lives. Why do so many Americans not only own guns but also carry them? In Citizen - Protectors Jennifer Carlson offers a compelling portrait of gun carriers shedding light on Americans complex relationship with guns. Delving headlong into the world of gun carriers Carlson spent time participating in firearms training classes attending pro - gun events and carrying a firearm herself. Through these experiences she explores the role guns play in the lives of Americans who carry them and shows how against a backdrop of economic insecurity and social instability gun carrying becomes a means of being a good citizen an idea that not only pervades the NR a's public literature and statements but its training courses as well. A much - needed counterpoint to the rhetorical battles over gun control Citizen - Protectors is a captivating and revealing look at gun culture in America and is a must - read for anyone with a stake in this heated debate.
Title: Citizen - Protectors The Everyday Politics Of Guns In An Age Of Decline
Author(s): Carlson Jennifer (Assistant Professor School Of Sociology And School Of Government & Public Policy Assistant Professor School Of Sociology And School Of Government & Public Policy University Of Arizona)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780190902148
Pages: 248 Pages
Publication Date: 9/1/2018
Category: Criminology: Legal Aspects